This page provides links to other sites relevant to the project.
 
Teresa Gibbison and John Clayton from the Open Source Learning Object Repository Project in New Zealand have provided a link to a tutorial created by their project. The tutorial runs in Moodle and contains Flash movies.

Instructions are available from a PDF on their site.

Robert Grégoire from the Université de Moncton in Canada got in touch to tell us about their work in creating a very slick Tutorial (online course module) on Content Packaging with Reload.

Click here to visit the tutorial site. The tutorial contains Flash movies and covers Learning Objects Standards, Metadata and XML.

Jorge Dieguez has written a tutorial in Spanish - showing how to create content in Reload and use it in Moodle.

The tutorial is available as a PDF file here.

Ernie Ghiglione, from the University of Sydney, Australia, got in touch to tell us about some of the work he has been doing preparing libraries which bring Content Packaging Support to the .LRN Learning Environment.

Ernie has also created a short tutorial on using Reload to create the course content for delivery through .LRN Click here to visit the tutorial site.

NLN have developed some Flash based training movies to show how NLN content can be used and repurposed with Reload. These movies take the viewer right through the process of using Reload.

Click here to visit the tutorial site. The tutorial contains Flash movies and covers the NLN Content Access Tool and Reload.

Reload is funded under the X4L initiative and to showcase Reload and Jorum, Mark Power has created a 25 minute long video to show how content can be discovered, repurposed and shared.

Click here to visit the video site.

The following links represent some of the key players in the field of learning design, and some of the key resources. Some of the key issues are highlighted.

Learning Design
http://www.imsglobal.org/learningdesign/index.cfm
IMS Learning Design Specifcations Page. As with all IMS specifcations, there are three main documents, the best Practice Guide, the information Binding and the Information Model.

SRW
http://www.loc.gov/srw/
The Search/Retreive Web Service. SRW is a web service based protocol (SOAP and URL access) which aims to promote interoperability between distributed databases - effectively updating Z39.50 (building on it). SRW is important in DRI, it would provide an access interface to Digital Libraries in the same way that XQuery will be the query standard for IMS Digital Repositories. To read a view on how things might be implemented, read this report from EdNA Online - the education Network of Australia.

COLIS
http://www.colis.mq.edu.au/
The Collaborative Online Learning and Information Services (COLIS) project was funded in Australia to develop models for seamless sharing of online content. Participants in COLIS included James Dalziel - now working on the LAMS (Learning Activity Management System) LD-like Implementation, and Neil McLean, who has written extensively on the subject of eLearning and Digital libraries - e.g.: PDF: Libraries and eLearning: Organisational and Technical Interoperability. Another paper: Interoperability between Information and Learning Environments is available.

dSpace
http://dspace.org/index.html
Durable Digital Repository: DSpace - this is the digital repository created to capture and provide access to content produced by MIT: the repository is open source and accessed through standard protocols.

GTK Press
http://www.gtkpress.com/aae.html
GTK Press (http://www.gtkpress.com/) are developing what they term an Authoring and Adaptation Environment (AAE).

SCOPE
http://www.tecn.upf.es/gti/leteos/newnavs/index.html
The EU-funded SCOPE project, at the University Pompeu fabra (UPF) is developing open source Java libraries to facilitate the implementation of Learning Design.

OUNL LD FAQ 1.0
Compiled by Colin Tattersall (120903).